Sorry for the newb questions… I'm pretty new to Gluster. If I'm understanding 
correctly, you can /create/ a Gluster volume with Solaris/Opensolaris ZFS 
bricks, but you can't actually /mount/ the filesystem unless you've got a node 
that can run the native GlusterFS client - hence no access to the volume for 
any read/write operations w/out the Linux head. That head node would then 
export NFS should you choose to… ?

Have you had any luck w/ zfsonlinux (or anyone else on this list..)? 

Thanks!


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On Feb 22, 2012, at 12:21 PM, Shain Miley wrote:

> Anh,
> What I mean by that is that the gluster client does not work on Solaris 
> variants.  So if you want to use Solaris or Opensolaris for example,  you 
> can...for your storage bricks...however when you want to mount and access the 
> files...you need to have a linux headnode (we are using VM's) in order to run 
> the gluster client.
> 
> Shain
> 
> 
> 
> ________________________________________
> From: Anh Quach [[email protected]]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2012 3:11 PM
> To: Shain Miley
> Cc: Dipeit; [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Gluster-users] What about ZFS ?
> 
> Shain,
> 
> I was just reading your blog here: 
> http://www.shainmiley.com/wordpress/2011/01/17/gluster-on-opensolaris-so-far-part-1/
> 
> in which you say  " if you choose to use a Solaris variant for your storage 
> nodes,  you will be required to use a head node with an OS that does support 
> it on the client side."
> 
> Would you mind clarifying that? Does that mean that one of the Gluster nodes 
> has to be Linux in order to export NFS to clients?
> 
> Thanks in advance, and thanks for sharing great stuff on your blog.
> 
> Anh Quach
> Technical Director
> 
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> 
> 
> On Feb 22, 2012, at 12:07 PM, Shain Miley wrote:
> 
> Are you able to talk about the performance you have been seeing using this 
> setup?
> 
> I have been testing zfs + gluster using some kvm vm's, and I have found it to 
> be stable but kind of slow.
> 
> However I believe that the cause of my slowness has more to do with my setup, 
> not necessarily anything to do with zfs or gluster (outside of the fact they 
> both use fuse and thus introduce some additional overhead).
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Shain
> 
> On 02/22/2012 10:46 AM, Dipeit wrote:
> we have this running with zfsonlinux and glusterfs 3.2.5 and are using a 60TB 
> volume across 3 storage server. In the last 6 months we had one unexplained 
> reboot of one of these. Cause unknown. Other than that it was fast and stable
> 
> Dipe
> 
> On Feb 22, 2012, at 5:26 AM, Germain 
> Maurice<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>  wrote:
> 
> Hi everybody,
> 
> I'm looking for information about using GlusterFS with ZFS. I got information 
> that talked about a sort of incompatibility between the both technologies 
> because of unsupported xattr feature in ZFS.
> 
> What are the latest news about this ?
> 
> Thank you in advance.
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